Podcast host Avery Trufelman and curator Andi Soos discuss the intersection of fashion and architecture; © Manic Metallic 2024 About 150 people filled a room in New York on an otherwise uneventful Wednesday evening in Greenwich Village to hear an American podcast host and a Hungarian curator discuss the intersection of fashion and architecture.…
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Recently, Manic Metallic posted a TikTok video stitch (you can follow us HERE) about Anna Sorokin (scam name: "Anna Delvey") returning yet again to the public eye - this time during the recently completed New York Fashion Week. Let's just say that I did it for science. I commented on the mediocrity of the…
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A bride in a strapless wedding dress; photo credit: Brooke Cagle, Unsplash Have you ever been a bride?Have you ever had to search for a wedding dress for any reason?If so, then maybe you've found the process of choosing a wedding dress to be quite peculiar in many different ways. One of the strangest…
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It is 2022 at last, and along with every new year comes the dreams and aspirations of those looking to become better people and better entities. For our part at Manic Metallic, we have set company goals so that we can become a stronger, more robust company. We are entering our second official year…
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Macy's Herald Square, 34th St. side; © Manic Metallic 2021 As we wind down towards the end of what was surely a tumultuous year both inside - and outside - of fashion, we wanted to pay tribute to New York. The city is, paradoxically, both routinely overrated and consistently underestimated by outsiders. It is…
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Ulla Johnson Spring/Summer 2022; photo c/o CNN New York Fashion Week - and with it, Fashion Month for the so-called "Big 4" - began in earnest yesterday (although some designers such as Collina Strada have still opted to show outside of the stated NYFW calendar dates of September 8th-12th). And with so many entrants…
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Molly Goddard F/W 2021; looks c/o Molly Goddard Learning about the ways in which colors seamlessly combine - or clash - is one of the most important things to figure out in a fashion design career. Alas, anyone in a fashion- or fashion-related career should have this step ingrained into one's mind well before…
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Choupette Lagerfeld, with the late Karl Lagerfeld; c/o Karl Lagerfeld Humans love to dress their pets, and it has only become more apparent over the past few years. High fashion designers have created entirely separate lines for animals. On January 14 of every year, it is National Dress Up Your Pet Day - a…
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Sustainable Fashion Show; c/o CNN Allow us to clarify. There is no fashion sustainability certifications system, and that needs to change. After spending numerous hours completing research for the first couple of resources that Manic Metallic released on The Sustainability Wing (those resources can be found here and…
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HRH Cambridge; photo c/o Arabia Weddings 2 billion. 3 billion. 750 million. These are the numbers for viewership of three of the primary royal . . . Please subscribe to view this content by clicking here.…
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In honor of the United States presidential inauguration that occurred a couple of days ago (January 20th), we decided to take a look at presidential fashion over the years - and it brought up plenty of questions as we got deeper into our research. But first, here are our findings on the sartorial choices…
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Video c/o SHOWstudio Fashion films have recently gone from being a nice-to-have for fashion designers and brands to being a must during the pandemic era. However, these short videos didn't crop up overnight. In fact, they have been used with regularity since the year 2000 - the inception of fashion photographer and filmmaker Nick…
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